Pregnancy reshapes the interoceptive and sensorimotor characterization of abstract and concrete concepts: A rating study
PsyArXiv August 14, 2026 Giuseppina Porciello, Laura Barca, Chiara Fini et al. preprint
Recent theories of embodied cognition suggest that conceptual knowledge is grounded not only in external sensory experiences but also in internal bodily states. Interoception, the sensing of physiological signals from within the body, has been identified as a key modality for representing abstract concepts. However, whether this grounding is dynamically modulated by significant physiological...